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Lesson Plan 12: Responding - Analyze
MU:Re7.2.E.Ia Explain how the analysis of passages and understanding the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.
Have your tour company book a professional performance for your students to attend while overseas.
Listen to the local performance and think about how you respond to the music. Write down three ways in which you responded to the music and how the music elicited that response. Discuss as a class.
Lesson Plan 13: Responding - Interpret
MU:Re8.1.E.Ia Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.
Establish any necessary guidelines, due date and assignment format.
While attending a performance overseas (see Lesson 12), pick one piece to interpret. Choose 2-3 elements of the piece to discuss, whether it be the melody, the lyrics, etc. Interpret their meaning and explain. Upon returning from tour, hand in your written interpretation of the piece.
- How did the performance influence your interpretation of the piece?
- Did individual performers allow certain expressive elements to come through the music?
- During which parts? Why were these choices made?
- When and where was the piece written and first performed? How does the time period or destination influence the interpretation of the piece?
- In your opinion, what was the composer's meaning or intent behind the musical work? How did the expressive elements in the piece portray this meaning?
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Having grown up in a military family, Tori traveled the world at a young age and has visited over 25 countries to date. She is the former Director of Marketing and Business Development at Encore Tours and her passion for travel is matched only by her love of music. She holds bachelor degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Theory and currently performs with Chorus pro Musica in the Boston area. She also directs the Harborlight Show Chorus, a small barbershop chorus in the North Shore.More Content by Tori Cook


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Below are a few outtake images from my 2009 work 'The Afghans'. If it's not already online, the project edit will be on my website soonest and I'll be publishing more from the series in the weeks to come.
Funded by a Simon Cumbers Grant, I hoped to illustrate national identity and culture beyond our perceptions of Afghanistan as a country that is somehow only an American led war zone, showing the daily life of ordinary Afghans. I wanted to show the psychological impact of more than three decades of war on the civilian population with it's attendant social problems, undocumented mental illness and spiraling rates of drug addiction.
While the project was a success on some levels, it's scope was broad and sprawling for the short time frame I had to work with and as a photographer in Afghanistan you are automatically seduced by the beguiling, raw beauty, tumbledown palaces and the stunning, fairy tale quality of this land and it's people...
Darul Aman Palace, Kabul 2009
Khair Khonair Area, Kabul, 2009
Image of former dictator Dhaoud Khan, Kabul, 2009
Kabul, 2009
Afghanistan is a place like no other and besides it's incredible people and amazing landscape it's also a kind of a paradise for the hard-nosed journalist or photographer. With it's well established network of fixers, drivers and translators and the plethora of international media who are used to ready access to prisons, hospitals, military institutions and pretty much any area of society that would normally be considered behind closed doors in Western countries; it's a supermarket of visually striking, seemingly edgy stories and images.
This can be reflected in the vast amount of photography from Afghanistan that in a way re-inforces our stereotypes of this country and kind of maintains a status-quo in how we in the west view the Afghan conundrum as a kind of 'beautiful suffering.'
Shooting heroin, Kabul, 2009
Patient possessed by spirits or 'Djinns'. Shrine of Mir Ali Baba, Nangarhar province, 2009
Indeed, producing this body of work led me to question what my position was as another photographer in this ruined land. Was I really saying anything with this body of work or was I standing on the shoulders of a thousand other photographers?
Funfair, Kabul, 2009
Kite Runners, Kabul, 2009
TV Tower, Kabul, 2009
Ethical questions aside, the spirit, humor and resilience of the Afghan people will continue to linger long in the mind and I look forward to returning in the near future.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Portfolio: The Afghans #1
Below are a few outtake images from my 2009 work 'The Afghans'. If it's not already online, the project edit will be on my website soonest and I'll be publishing more from the series in the weeks to come.
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Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically, which we share with Chickens, Cats, Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!
I work as an environmental educator, lecturer, writer and Forest School leader at Moors Wood . I am a Master Composter and have spent the last 11 years as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council. I offer talks and run workshops and events where we talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. We also make crafts and have fun.
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I am now a no show at the Compost Awareness event in Hereford
because today I was scheduled to be teaching in the organic garden at School, I had Reception class scheduled to be out in the veg garden, planting potatos, carrots, beetroot and shallots.
Yesterday I had Gardening Club (juniors) out in the garden over lunch break planting potatos, beans, carrots, peas and beetroot. Then during the afternoon I was showing year 1 children how to plant up their raised veg bed with onions, carrots, turnips, potatos and beetroot, all with the theme of "purple"
I also, today had Eco Club and we did some pond dipping , which was great fun!
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Unfortunately due to my ( very painful) back injury I will also not, now, be at the Compost Awareness Week event in Hereford Fri.
Sorry! especially to Kim, who was going to come and say hello I know..
so...its rest, and recovery, and NO digging for me...
This is a really bad time for me to have an injury, as apart from all the stuff needing to be done here at Compost Mansions, there is a major re vamp of the school garden this weekend as well...moving the fence out to make the plot bigger, a new greenhouse, new raised beds..oooh all sorts of stuff ...and I am meant to be there digging and moving and dismantling compost bins and laying terram sheet and mulch and all sorts...
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Oh dear, Compostwoman, not good! You have my sympathy, it's a gardener's curse isn't it. I hope it eases soon.ReplyDelete
I expect you know the exercises that work for your back, I learned some from the physio which really help me. The other thing I find helps is a nylon weightlifter's belt which I always now wear when digging or lifting. I helped a friend move some railway sleepers the other day and so far (touch wood - oh they were wood!) no problem.
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I know the feeling and frustration of nagging injuries - every time my left knee starts acting up I want to scream. Hope you are feeling better soon....ReplyDelete
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Jenni Green Founding Fathers of Sociology Birthday: Jan. 19, 1798
Deathday: Sept. 5, 1857
Nationality: French
Childhood: parents Roman Catholic; rejected Catholicism for republicanism
Known as: Father of Sociology (coined the term too!)
Books: COURSE OF POSITIVE PHILOSPHY; SYSTEM OF POSITIVE POLITY
Education: Expelled from Ecole Polytechnique
Did you know? Suffered from a nervous breakdown while presenting a lecture series to French intellectuals Auguste Comte Beliefs: Birth-year: 1802
Death-year: 1876
Nationality: English
Childhood: lost her sense of taste, hearing, and smell.
Known for: inspired future feminist theorists
Books: SOCIETY IN AMERICA; translated Comte's POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY
Did you know? She sold embroidery work in order to support the abolitionist movement in America. Harriet Martineau Birth-year: 1818
Death-year: 1883
Nationality: German
Childhood: born in middle class home; came from several generations of Jewish rabbis
Books: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Education: University of Bonn (1year); University of Berlin (4 years)
Did you know? Marx's wife's name was Jenny and they had 6 children but only 3 survived. Karl Marx Birthday: April 15, 1858
Deathday: Nov. 15, 1917
Nationality: French
Childhood: son of Jewish rabbi
Known for: groundbreaking research on suicide
Education: attended Collège d'Epinal and later the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure
Did you know? During World War I, Durkheim put major effort into supporting his country and raising awareness about the war. Emile Durkheim Beliefs Herbert Spencer Birthday: April 27, 1820
Death-year: 1903
Nationality: English
Childhood: ill as a child; only surviving child out of 9
Known for: introducing Social Darwinism
Books: SOCIAL STATICS; PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL HYPOTHESIS (published 7 yrs before Darwin's Origin of Species)
Did you know? He wore earplugs to avoid getting too excited.
He was also an opium addict.
Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"
Responsible for making the term "Evolution" well
known Beliefs Beliefs: Works Cited Sociology "Demography is destiny." Allen, John L., Jr. "For Catholic Theology, the Future Is Global and Lay-led." National Catholic Reporter 24 Dec. 2010: 4a. Student Edition. Web. 20 Aug. 2012.
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Jones, Robert A. "Emile Durkheim's Life and Works (1857-1917)." Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works. N.p.: n.p., 1986. 12-23. Emile Durkheim's Life and Works (1857-1917). Web. 20 Aug. 2012.
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Kim, Sung Ho. "Max Weber." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. N.p., 2012. Web. 02 Sept. 2012. <http://plato.stanford.edu.ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/entries/weber/>.
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Believed that the poor deserved to be poor and the rich deserved to be rich Did not believe in social reform because it messed with natural selection Survival of the fittest "The ultimate result of shielding
men from the effects of folly,
is to fill the world with fools." Beliefs: society exists based on agreement among its members "Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth." sociology has two parts: social statics (the stability of a society) and social dynamics (the changes in a society) society operates by its own set of rules morality to be center of political organization positivism: knowledge should be attained by scientific observation compared society to the human body preindustrial society based on mechnaical solidarity industrial society based on organic solidarity human behavior in society based on social facts not just psychological ones women were oppressed because they lacked economic power identified several social classes and predicted two would emerge from these
Bourgeoisie (capitalists)
Proletariat (worker class) class conflict would cause classless society planned revolution would speed change to communism explained capitalism in order to speed its downfall capitalism's self-destruction inevitable Max Weber Birthday: 1864
Deathday: 1920
Nationality: German
Childhood: Parents of opposing religions; suffered mental breakdown because of controversy between the two
Known for: Influence on the development of sociological theory
Books: THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRT OF CAPITALISM
Did you know? He was a descendant of the Huguenot line through his mother. Beliefs Verstehen: understanding other's views by putting oneself in their shoes Rationalization: emphasized reason and knowledge to prevent biases affecting investigations wrote on the nature of power and religion in society Humans react to events based on their own understanding created positive model of bureaucracy that was efficient in business and government Jane Addams Birthday: September 6, 1860
Death-day: May 21, 1935
Nationality: American
Childhood: Grew up with wealthy father and 8 siblings; her mother died when Jane was 2 years old
Known as: Social worker because worked directly with the poor
Education: Women's Medical College, Philidelphia (dropped out because ill)
Did you know? She became the official garbage inspector for the 19th Ward in Chicago; annual pay $1,000. Beliefs and Accomplishments Co-founded Hull House believed there was an imbalance of power between wealthy and workers active participant in woman's suffrage movement Nobel Peace Prize 1931 sought social justice W.E.B DuBois Birth-year: 1863
Death-year: 1963
Nationality: African American
Childhood: grew up in Massachusetts lively freely among the whites
Known for: Co-founded NAACP
Education: First African American to graduate from Great Bourrington, Mass. Attended Fisk University, Tennessee and Harvard
Did you know? 1st African American to receive a doctorate degree from Harvard Beliefs: Believed in equality for all (including blacks and women) Studied social structures of African Americans Dedicated to Pan Africa movement Analyzed social interactions of those who thought the African race to be below themselves supported emancipation of women and slaves "The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself." feminist feminist "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range." "The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world." "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXw5jhn9LAY "When three senses out of five are deficient the difficulty of cheerful living is great, and the terms of life are truly hard."
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Fiber-Rich Beans
We've been telling you all about how high fiber foods can help with weight loss by prolonging feelings of fullness, but did you know they may also help you reduce your risk of breast cancer? According to Harvard researchers, for every 10 grams of fiber consumed daily, a woman's breast cancer risk decreases by a whopping 7 percent! The authors speculate the fiber helps to reduce high estrogen levels in the blood, which are strongly linked with breast cancer development. And do you know what the number one high-fiber food is? You guessed it, beans! Navy beans pack a solid 9.6 grams of fiber per half a cup—that's more than what you'll find in four slices of Pepperidge Farm Oatmeal Bread! Find out the 20 Best and Worst Store-Bought Breads before your next grocery store trip.
No one will ever call you nutty for snacking on some walnuts. That's because these heart-shaped nuts contain a vitamin called gamma tocopherol that stops the activation of Akt—an enzyme that is essential for cancer cell survival—without harming healthy cells. The nut also contains cholesterol-like molecules called phytosterols that can help regulate estrogen levels in men and women and even slow the growth of breast cancer cells by blocking estrogen receptors. Animal research published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer found that when mice were given the human equivalent of two ounces of walnuts every day for a month, the growth rate of tumors in the walnut-eating mice was half that of the animals who weren't able to crunch on the nuts.
Cooked Tomatoes
They should be a staple in your pantry for one more reason besides the fact they make a great pasta sauce: cooked tomatoes may help reduce women's risk of developing breast cancer! Recent findings, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2012, found that the antioxidant carotenoid, lycopene, was particularly effective at helping women with the harder-to-treat version of breast cancer: estrogen receptor (ER)–negative tumors. Breast cancer risk was 19 percent lower in women with the highest levels of total carotenoids compared with women having the lowest levels and women with the highest levels of lycopene had a 22 percent decreased breast cancer risk.
Sweet Potatoes
Like tomatoes, orange-colored veggies are a top source of carotenoids. Sweet potatoes, specifically, are rich in a specific carotenoid known as beta-carotene. The same Journal of the National Cancer Institute study found that women with the highest levels of beta-carotene in their blood that a 17 percent lower risk of developing certain types of breast cancer. The theory is that carotenoids contain compounds that help regulate cell growth, defense, and repair. Don't stop with sweet potatoes; also check out carrots, squash, and dark leafy greens.
Sure it's the number-two food when it comes to fruit sugar, but eating these fiber-rich seeds can help your body inhibit the growth of hormone-dependent breast cancer. According to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, the ellagic acid in pomegranates might help protect against breast cancer by suppressing estrogen production and preventing the growth of cancer cells. Not interested in staining your favorite shirt every time you open the fruit? You can also help yourself to raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, walnuts, and pecans—they're rich in ellagic acid as well.
Tea, especially green tea, is packed with polyphenols—a class of antioxidants with immense health benefits. One of those benefits includes anti-breast cancer properties. A small study conducted by the National Institute of Health's (NIH) National Cancer Institute found that Japanese women who drank at least one cup of green tea daily had less urinary estrogen—a known carcinogen of the breast—than non tea-drinkers. To reap the benefits, be sure to brew. According to research presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, you'd have to drink as many as 20 bottles of store-bought bottled tea to get the polyphenol-power of a single home-brewed cup!
Crunch on a crucifer to crush cancer. Everything from broccoli to Brussels sprouts can help you beat breast cancer. That's all thanks to these veggies containing an anti-inflammatory compound known as sulforaphane, which has been found to eliminate breast-cancer-causing chemicals and inhibit the growth of human breast cancer cells, according to a 2013 study published in Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. To boost your intake of the anti-cancer compound, lightly steaming the veggie is the best way to reap the most bioactive nutrients from your food.
Wild Salmon
This fatty fish is rich in healthy fats—mainly, omega-3 fatty acids. These essential fats have been linked to improved breast cancer prognosis. A large-scale analysis of international studies published in the journal BMJ found that women who consumed the most fish-based omega-3 fatty acids were 14 percent less likely to have breast cancer, compared to those who ate the least. For overall health benefits, the American Heart Association recommends adding a mere 3.5-ounce serving of wild-caught fatty fish to your diet twice a week. Salmon doesn't even have to be your go-to. Other fish high in omega-3s include cod, mackerel, and anchovies.
Vitamin-D-Fortified Organic Milk
Milk alternatives might be all the rave right now, but unless they're vitamin-D-fortified, we say forget 'em. In addition to helping your body absorb calcium, University of California San Diego researchers found that vitamin D can also ward off breast, colon, and ovarian cancers. The study, published in Cancer Prevention Research found that an adequate vitamin D intake could reduce breast cancer risk in women by up to 50 percent. A few of our favorite ways to use the dairy product is adding a splash to your morning coffee, mixing it into oatmeal, or using it to whip up a post-pump smoothie. Check out these 56 Best Smoothie Recipes For Weight Loss for inspiration!
Olive Oil
Bonus points for the Mediterranean diet! When Spanish researchers had women supplement their Mediterranean diets with extra-virgin olive oil, the researchers found that these women had a 68 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer compared to women whose dietary fats came from corn oil. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, speculated that the olive oil's anti-inflammatory phenolic compounds and oleic acid may have quelled the growth of malignant cells.
They're one of our favorite Greek yogurt toppers: antioxidant-rich peaches. In 2014, researchers at Texas A&M found that the precise mixture of phenolic compounds present in a peach extract was able to inhibit the metastasis—or spread—of breast cancer cells in mice. Although the research was done in an animal model, the researchers say that the dosage equivalent in humans would be equivalent to consuming two to three peaches per day.
Eggs are one of the most potent sources of an essential—and hard-to-get—nutrient known as choline. This neurotransmitter building block is necessary for the structure and function of all cells, and a deficiency in this compound has been linked to neurological disorders and decreased cognitive function. Not only does it act as brain food, but it may also help lower your risk of breast cancer! According to The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, women who consumed the highest amount of choline had the lowest risk of breast cancer compared with those who consumed the least.
Coffee drinkers won't just get an energy jolt with every cuppa, they may actually help lower their risk of antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer. A 2011 study in Breast Cancer Research found that coffee drinkers had a lower incidence of ER-negative breast cancer than women who rarely drank the morning joe. According to one of the study authors, Jingmei Li, Ph.D., "One possibility is that coffee's antioxidants protect cells from damage that can lead to cancer."
Ask any doctor and they'll tell you: the easiest way to reduce the mortality of cancer is by preventing yourself from getting cancer in the first place. And that can be accomplished by eating turmeric. This root-derived spice contains the compound curcumin, an antioxidant polyphenol with chemopreventive properties. Because chronic inflammation is a major risk factor for the development and metastatic progression of cancer, curcumin's anti-inflammatory properties play a major role in diminishing the formation of breast cancer, according to a study in Molecular Oncology.
Leafy Greens
Leafy greens, like spinach, pack a one-two punch when it comes to fighting breast cancer. For starters, they're a top source of the dynamic carotenoid duo, lutein, and zeaxanthin, of which high levels have been connected to a 16 percent reduced rate of breast cancer. And secondly, they're a primo source of folate, a B vitamin that strengthens your DNA and is crucial in lowering risk of neural tube defects during pregnancy. Low levels of folate have most recently been linked to increased breast cancer risk in a study published in the journal PLoS ONE. To reap the rewards, grab some spinach, kale, or asparagus.
We're debunking the long-standing food myth that soy foods cause breast cancer. It stemmed from the fact that soy contains phytoestrogens, naturally occurring hormone-like compounds with weak estrogenic effects. Under lab settings, these compounds sometimes fuel cancers; however, human studies have not proved high-soy diets increase breast cancer risk. In fact, it's quite the opposite, and experts speculate it has to do with the fact that soy isoflavones can actually block more potent natural estrogens in the blood.
A longitudinal study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that followed nearly 10,000 breast cancer survivors found that women who ate the most soy had 15 percent lower rate of cancer recurrence and 15 percent decrease in mortality. The American Cancer Society's dietary guidelines note that consumption of soy foods is not only safe but "may even lower breast cancer risk." Other studies in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and American Journal of Epidemiology have also shown that increased soy consumption correlates to improved survival rates and decreased risk of lung cancer as well as a reduced risk of prostate cancer for men. Reap the benefits with fermented foods: miso paste, tempeh, natto, soy sauces, and fermented tofu.
Foods That May Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Remember that saying, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" That doesn't actually apply when it comes to cancer-causing agents. The following types of foods have been linked to increasing your risk of breast cancer, so try to keep consumption of them low.
Canned Food
You've heard that it's linked to man boobs, but did you know that the can lining, bisphenol-A, (BPA), has also been linked to breast cancer? Because BPA is a synthetic estrogen, meaning it mimics your hormones, it can disrupt your hormone system. In fact, a 2012 report published in Environmental Health Perspectives suggested that BPA was able to promote human breast cancer cell growth in a lab. And although the World Health Organization (WHO) stated in their 2014 World Cancer Report, "Definitive proof of the role of BPA in human cancer induction is likely to remain limited, not least by ethical limits to human experiments," there is ample evidence in animal models to conclude BPA increases the risk of cancer in humans. One example is a 2014 study, which found that BPA increases the incidence of cancerous lesions in adult rat mammary glands. We might never know for sure what BPA's role in breast cancer is, but in this case, there are more benefits of avoiding BPA-lined cans than there are costs (actual cost being one of them).
Excess Alcohol
Although a low to moderate amount of alcohol has some health benefits, overindulgence not only can increase your risk of heart failure and stroke, but it can also increase your risk of cancer. A 2015 International Journal of Cancer study involving over 300,000 women found that a woman's average risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer increases by 4 percent with each additional drink a day. The study also found that the longer a woman drank over the course of her life, the greater her risk of breast cancer—especially if she started drinking before her first pregnancy. Study co-author Maria-Dolores Chirlaque, MD, MPH, reminded women in a news release that this is a modifiable risk factor, "Alcohol intake is a breast cancer risk factor that can be changed by a personal decision to form healthy habits," Chirlaque said. So, "women must be advised and forewarned of the possibility they have to control this factor." So try to stick to one glass of wine per day.
Saturated Fats
Saturated fats may have been cleared of their connection with heart disease, but that doesn't mean they have been absolved of all of their sins. A 2015 meta-analysis of 52 studies published in the journal Medicine reported that postmenopausal women with the highest saturated fat intake increased their risk of breast cancer by over 30 percent compared to those who ate the least. As you get older, try to decrease your consumption of foods high in saturated fats, such as highly-processed snacks made with vegetable oils, fatty meats, processed cheeses, and butter-based desserts.
Added Sugars
Although research has not found a direct connection between sugar and breast cancer, many studies suggest that the two may be linked. Experts speculate that because those who follow a high-carb diet are more likely to be overweight—and a BMJ study of over a million women found that being overweight or obese significantly increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women—high consumption of sugar over a prolonged period of time may increase your risk of breast cancer. In fact, a study published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control found that women who reported eating the most desserts, sweetened beverages, and added sugars, had a 27 percent greater risk of having breast cancer than women who consumed the least amount.
Charred Meat
When you cook, broil, or grill food—particularly meats and fish—at high temperatures for a long period of time, the cooking process can convert the food's proteins into carcinogenic compounds known as heterocyclic amines (HCA). One study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that women who ate well-done meat three times a week increased their risk of breast cancer by over 460 percent compared to those women who ate the same amount of meat cooked rare or medium.


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In marketing, product bundling is offering several products or services for sale as one combined product or service package. It is a common feature in many imperfectly competitive product and service markets. Industries engaged in the practice include telecommunications services, financial services, health care, information[1] and consumer electronics. A software bundle might include a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program into a single office suite. The cable television industry often bundles many TV and movie channels into a single tier or package. The fast food industry combines separate food items into a "meal deal" or "value meal".
A bundle of products may be called a package deal, in recorded music, a compilation or box set, or in publishing, an anthology.
Most firms are multi-product or multi-service companies faced with the decision whether to sell products or services separately at individual prices or whether combinations of products should be marketed in the form of "bundles" for which a "bundle price" is asked. Price bundling plays an increasingly important role in many industries (e.g. banking, insurance, software, automotive) and some companies even build their business strategies on bundling. In a bundle pricing, companies sell a package or set of goods or services for a lower price than they would charge if the customer bought all of them separately. Pursuing a bundle pricing strategy allows you to increase your profit by giving customers a discount.
Bundling is most successful when:
- There are economies of scale in production.
- There are economies of scope in distribution. This can be seen in consumer electronics bundles where a big box electronics store offers all of the components for a home theatre setup (DVD player, flatscreen TV, surround sound speakers, receiver, subwoofer) for a lower price than if each component were to be purchased separately. The big box electronics store can exploit its economies of scope, as they distribute and sell a huge range of home theatre products.
- Marginal costs of bundling are low.
- Production set-up costs are high.
- Customer acquisition costs are high.
- Consumers appreciate the resulting simplification of the purchase decision and benefit from the joint performance of the combined product or service. This is particularly the case when a non-specialist consumer would have information asymmetry when trying to buy all of the components of a home theatre (speakers, connection cables, speaker wire). He/she would need learn about all of the product specifications and the requirements for accessories used with the main items. For example, with Home Theatre in a Box, a consumer can feel confident that all of the included speakers are of correct impedance and power rating and that all of the included cables are the correct models.
While many well-known examples of bundling are all products or services from the same store or provider, such as the sports package for a car or a grocery store's gift basket, in some cases, cross-industry bundles are assembled and sold. For example, some travel agencies have vacation tour bundles that may include air tickets, rail tickets, a rental car, hotels, restaurants, museum and sightseeing attraction tickets and live music event tickets. These bundles include products and services from transportation, accommodation, tourism, food service and entertainment industries.
Consumers have heterogeneous demands and such demands for different parts of the bundle product are inversely correlated. For example, assume consumer A values a word processor software at $100 and spreadsheet processor at $60, while consumer B values a word processor at $60 and spreadsheet at $100. Seller can generate maximum revenue of only $240 by setting $60 price for each product—both consumers will buy both products. Revenue cannot be increased without bundling because as seller increases the price above $60 for one of the goods, one of the consumers will refuse to buy it. With bundling, seller can generate revenue of $320 by bundling the products together and selling the bundle at $160.
Product bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products. Research by Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson found that bundling was particularly effective for digital "information goods" with close to zero marginal cost, and could enable a bundler with an inferior collection of products to drive even superior quality goods out of the market place.[2][3]
Venkatesh and Mahajan reviewed the research on bundle design and pricing in 2009.[4]A 1997 study by Mercer Management Consulting, in Massachusetts stated that good bundles have five elements: (1) the package is worth more than the "sum of its parts" for the consumer; (2) the bundle brings order and simplicity to a set of confusing or tedious choices; (3) the bundle solves a problem for the consumer; (4) the bundle is focused and lean in an effort to avoid carrying or including options, goods or services the consumer has no use for; and (5) the bundle generates interest or even controversy.[5] Number 1 can be read as simply that a bundle should cost less than buying each item separately; however, even if the bundle were to cost the same in dollars, a bundle may still be an appealing value proposition for a consumer, as they do not have to hand-pick each accessory and add-on item (this is the 2nd and 3rd point).
Bundling is often thought of mainly as a value pricing strategy, in that product bundles often cost less than if each item were purchased separately. However, bundling can also have other strategic advantages. For example, when a grocery store is making up a gift basket, they can use the design of the basket item list as a way to promote new products or brands that a customer may not know or as a way to liquidate merchandise that is not selling well. As well, even though many bundles are less expensive than all of the items if purchased separately, in some cases the bundle costs more than if each item was purchased separately; this tactic is particularly effective in high-end retailing where conspicuous consumption and prestige pricing elements come into play. A well-off home theatre enthusiast with a very high budget may find a $10,000 home theatre package attractive, even if it costs a bit more than buying each item separately, because this is an impressive total cost.
- Pure bundling occurs when a consumer can only purchase the entire bundle or nothing
- Joint bundling is a subcategory of pure bundling in which the two products are offered together for one bundled price
- Leader bundling is a subcategory of pure bundling in which a leader product is offered for discount if purchased with a non-leader product, accessory or other item.
- Mixed-leader bundling is a variant of leader bundling with the added possibility of buying the leader product on its own.
- Mixed bundling occurs when consumers are offered a choice between purchasing the entire bundle or one of the separate parts of the bundle.
Bundling in political economy is a type of product bundling in which the "product" is a candidate in an election who markets his or her bundle of attributes and political positions to the voters. For example, a political candidate may market herself as a centrist candidate by ensuring she/he has centrist social, economic, and law enforcement positions.
In the computer industry, bundled software is distributed with another product such as a piece of computer hardware or other electronic device, or is a group of software packages which are sold together. Software which is pre-installed on a new computer is an example of bundled software. For example, as of 2017, most desktop, laptop and mobile computers are bought pre-loaded with various software and software applications ("apps"). A pack-in game is a form of bundled software.
Early microcomputer companies varied in their decision to bundle software. BYTE in 1984 observed that "Kaypro apparently has tremendous buying and bargaining power", noting that the Kaypro 10 came with both WordStar and Perfect Writer, plus "two spelling checkers, two spreadsheets, two communications programs and three versions of BASIC".[6] Compaq, by contrast, did not bundle software, stating that "You remove the freedom from the dealers to really merchandise when you bundle in software ... Why should you be constrained to use the software that comes with a piece of hardware? I think it can tend to inhibit sales over the long run."[7] MacWrite's inclusion with early Macintosh computers discouraged developers from creating other word processing software for the computer.[8] Many companies sold multimedia upgrade kits—a CD-ROM drive, sound card, speakers, and "a boatload of bundled software"—during the mid-1990s.[9]
Home Theatre in a Box[edit]
In the 1990s and in the 2000s (decade) and 2010s, many consumer electronics companies designed home theatre equipment bundles, known as Home Theatre in a Box (HTIB). For a customer who already owned a TV, and in some cases a DVD player or other source for playing back movies, a HTIB package provides all of the electronics hardware, speakers and cables needed to set up a home cinema. There are three grades of HTIB bundles: economy bundles, aimed at the lowest price point; mid-tier bundles, the most common type; and higher-cost HTIB bundles made by BOSE and other higher-end manufacturers. At the economy grade HTIB package, the customer is provided with a basic home theatre set-up, with modest sound quality and relatively few options for adjusting the sound. The mid-tier and upper-tier packages offer better performance and more set-up options. All three HTIB tiers, though, have a similar value proposition for the buyer: the HTIB package ensures that all of the speakers are of the correct impedance and power handling capabilities, the cables are of the correct type, and the crossover points and other technical details have been set up by the manufacturer.
The most serious home theatre enthusiasts do not typically buy HTIB bundles, as they are a more sophisticated target market. As such, the most serious home cinema-philes typically purchase each component (power amplifiers, speakers, subwoofer cabinet, speaker cables) separately, so that they can choose which items meet their specific movie-watching goals. For example, a serious home theatre enthusiast may wish to have a large cabinet subwoofer enclosure with heavy bracing, a type and size of subwoofer cabinet that would not be found in any HTIB bundle due to its large size and high cost. As well, a serious home theatre enthusiast may wish to have a powered subwoofer with a user-adjustable crossover, a "subsonic" filter and other higher-cost advanced features.
Market power and competitiveness[edit]
In oligopolistic and monopolistic industries, product bundling can be seen as an unfair use of market power because it limits the choices available to the consumer. In these cases it is typically called product tying. Some forms of product bundling have been subject to litigation regarding abuses of market share.
United States v. Microsoft[edit]
United States v. Microsoft was a set of civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Sections 1 and 2 on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor. The plaintiffs alleged that Microsoft abused monopoly power on Intel-based personal computers in its handling of operating system sales and web browser sales. The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Microsoft Windows operating system. Bundling them together is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of Internet Explorer.
Further reading[edit]
- "Bundle Up, Electric Providers." Public Utilities Fortnightly 137, no. 2 (1999): 62.
- "Bundling Survey Assesses Consumers' Interests." Security Distributing and Marketing 29, no. 1 (1999): 30.
- "Business Unbundled: Microsoft." The Economist 374, 8407 (2005): 48.
- Fuerderer, R., A. Herrmann, and G. Wuebker, eds. Optimal Bundling: Marketing Strategies for Improving Economic Performance. New York: Springer, 1999.
- Janiszewski, C., and M. Chuha, Jr. "The Influence of Price Discount Framing on the Evaluation of a Product Bundle." Journal of Consumer Research 30, no. 4 (2004): 534–547.
- Mannes, G. "The Urge to Unbundle." Fast Company 91 (2005): 23–24.
- Ovans, Andrea. "Make a Bundle Bundling." Harvard Business Review 75, no. 6 (1997): 18–20. 1999, S4–S11.
- Salinger, Michael A. "A Graphical Analysis of Bundling." Journal of Business 68, no. 1 (1995): 85–98.
- Solomon, Howard. "Corel Inks Office Suite Bundling Deal with PC Chips." Computing Canada 25, no. 15 (1999): 15–17.
- "Utilities Pose Threat to Bundling." Utility Business, 28 February 1999, 72.
See also[edit]
- Bundles in OSGi
- Breakage
- Competition law
- Compilation album
- Freebie marketing
- History of IBM § 1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services
- Local loop unbundling
- Marketing co-operation
- Multicart
- Package holiday
- Price discrimination
- Product management
- Shovelware
- Software bloat
- Tying (commerce)
- ^ Adams, Yellen, W, J (August 1976). "Commodity bundling and the burden of monopoly". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 90 (3): 475–498. doi:10.2307/1886045.
- ^ Bakos, Yannis; Brynjolfsson, Erik (1999). "Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency". Management Science. 45 (12): 1613–1630. doi:10.1287/mnsc.45.12.1613. JSTOR 2634781.
- ^ Bakos, Yannis; Brynjolfsson, Erik (2000). "Bundling and Competition on the Internet". Marketing Science. 19 (1): 63–82. doi:10.1287/mksc.126.96.36.19982. JSTOR 193259.
- ^ Venkatesh, R. and Vijay Mahajan (2009). Vithala R. Rao, ed. "The Design and Pricing of Bundles: A Review of Normative Guidelines and Practical Approaches" (PDF). Handbook of Pricing Research in Marketing. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Company: 232–257. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ^ "BUNDLED GOODS AND SERVICES". www.referenceforbusiness.com. Reference for Business. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ McMahon, Steve (May 1984). "The Kaypro 10". BYTE. pp. 206–224. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ Zientara, Marguerite (1984-04-02). "Q&A: H.L. Sparks". InfoWorld. pp. 84–85. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ McNeill, Dan (December 1987). "Macintosh: The Word Explosion". Compute!'s Apple Applications. pp. 54–60. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ Weksler, Mike (June 1994). "CDs On A ROMpage". Computer Gaming World. pp. 36–40.


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Testimony from Sharon, Sue and Sandra (Clients from the Riverina District)
Hi, our names are Sharon, Sue and Sandra and we live in the Riverina District. Each of us had all been concerned about our weight for some time and had been trying unsuccessfully to lose weight.
That´s where Maz from You Are What You Eat came in. We met Maz when a colleague actually won an 8–week program and we were impressed when he lost quite a bit of weight, in fact, so impressed… we signed up.
The on–line program gave us all the support we needed. It assessed our current eating and exercise habits, from our entries in our daily food diaries, which were emailed to Maz, who then gently steered us in the right direction. We emailed our daily food diary once a week and the amazing thing we found is that you don´t realize how much food and fat you can consume in a day, and by keeping the food diary, has been a useful tool to assess our eating patterns and make us aware.
Maz encouraged us to exercise by putting a program together that we could handle, taking into consideration, our fitness, weight and age, and this program is increased as you gain fitness and lose weight. You get coaching notes and advice and Maz is always there if you have any questions or feel you need support in any way.
Since starting the program, we have all lost cm and are down a couple of dress sizes. We all feel so good now and are looking forward to summer.
We can´t emphasise enough how much being part of a team has helped us, because with encouragement from Maz we support one another and congratulate each other on little victories or on reaching goals we have set ourselves. Although Sandra doesn´t work at the same place we would meet up at aerobics once a week. It has helped us tremendously having to be accountable as well. This was important; we didn´t want to let ourselves or Maz down.
We know if we continue what we have learnt throughout this program we won´t ever have an issue with weight or exercise again, as Maz has shown us how to eat well, not feel hungry, put together an exercise routine that we can sustain and happily live with and still be able to have the odd treat or two. Thank you Maz!!
Personal note from Maz:
Thank you for your lovely testimony, I am hoping this testimony will motivate many other people who live in remote locations and need guidance, support and encouragement via e.mail and phone.
I would also like to say that Sharon was awarded with our Special Excellence Award on obtaining her optimal goal weight. Way to go… each of you contribute in making my life worthwhile.


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What to do about Teen Boot Camps
What to do when your teenager goes off the rails in ways that seembeyond your control anything from drugs and alcohol abuse to depression, violence and more? In desperation, many parents turn to thehundreds of private boot camps, wilderness programs, residential treatment centers, and therapeutic boarding schools across the country.
What Congress is Now Saying about the Troubled Teen Industry
Last week, a report to Congress stamped a long-overdue "buyer beware" label on an industry that hasexploded since the 1990s with only patchy regulation and oversight.Many slick operators sell expensive "solutions" to frantic parents, yet seem to have borrowed their manuals from the sadistic fictional camp in the movie Holes.
There's no hard data on how widespread the abuse is, or even how many camps exist. But the report, by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, is a wake-up call.
It found thousands of allegations of abuse, some of which involved death, at programs across the country and U.S.-operated programs overseas. During 2005 alone, for example, 33 states reported 1,619 staff members involved in incidents of abuse. In one tragedy, a 15-year-old girl collapsed and died while hiking. She lay dead in the road for 18 hours. Staff had accused her of faking two days of illness, not recognizing classic symptoms of dehydration.
Yet despite years of controversy, the industry is lightly regulated. In many states, monitoring and licensing is so lax that camps simply give themselves a label and falsely claim to have expertise in areas from survival training to specific mental illnesses.
What about Good Programs for Troubled Teens?
Properly run, the camps do give many troubled teens "a general sense of mastery" and "the opportunity to feel successful," says Allison Pinto, spokesperson for Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment (A START), a task force of leaders in children's mental health. At the same time, "the problems are not limited to just a few programs with a few bad folks."
So how can desperate parents, and their troubled teens, separate the worthwhile camps from the horrors?
Some lawmakers want better federal and state regulation and oversight of the industry. Other proposals include databases and websites like those maintained by Consumer Reports or Trip-Advisor.
All good ideas. And a more comprehensive report later this year will provide better data to work with. For now, though, parents should proceed with extreme caution.
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In 2007, Seattle-native Amanda Knox did a cartwheel in an Italian police station. It was a weird thing to do for the then 20-year-old, who was being held for questioning after the murder of her study abroad roommate. It was an oddly carefree, lighthearted act that threw the already bonkers media circus around her into a frenzy. Though Knox, pegged "Foxy Knoxy" by the press, was eventually acquitted and sent back to the States (four years in jail later, mind you) the mystery and murkiness of the crime still taunts those of us prone to conspire about these kinds of things—myself and novelist Jennifer duBois included.
In Cartwheel, duBois takes us not to Europe, but to Buenos Aires, where Middlebury College student Lily Hayes toils in custody for the grizzly, sexually-charged murder of her study abroad roommate, Katy. Through chapters that alternate between the months leading up to the murder and the time leading up to the verdict—no spoilers, promise—duBois plays with our ability to create suspicions based on assumptions and stereotypes alone. Is Lily a sexxed-up maniac, driven to murder by jealousy for her roommate? Or is she a naive tourist in a politically unstable country, unfairly judged for her independence?
DuBois manages to breathe life into what could otherwise be an airport newsstand-level pageturner by getting inside the heads of the characters surrounding Lily. From her distraught family who flies in to show support, to the wealthy recluse she briefly dates, to the depressed investigator for the prosecution, duBois spends quality time with each of these fringe characters, carefully cluing us into what the case means for their present and future lives. Though these detours from the plot can sometimes seem mundane, they offer more and more insight into the relationship between Lily and Katy—and what actually happened the night of Katy's death.
Cartwheel finds its place somewhere between the stomach-dropping cliffhangers of Gone Girl (Crown Publishing Group, 2012) and the slow burning suspense of The Secret History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992); and duBois never forgets to have fun with her reader (there's a particularly good jab at Sex and the City 2). I only wish I had known less about the Knox case, as my experience with the story felt akin to reading a book after watching the movie version. But in the end, the outcome of the plot is less important than duBois's sign-off, which asks us to consider our darkest capabilities: While we think we know ourselves and our loved ones, there's always the possibility that we don't. As in the case of Knox, who is currently battling a retrial from the Italian court, there are some things we'll never know for sure.


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Stewarts Law is to retain just 25 per cent of its trainees this autumn, giving it the lowest retention score of any firm to have announced its results so far this year, Lawyer 2B can reveal.
The firm said that one out of four trainees eligible for qualification will be staying at the firm, with the sole retained lawyer understood to be based in Stewarts' Leeds office.
There are another eight trainees on the scheme, but they are all due for qualification next year.
Weil Gotshal & Manges posted a retention score of 50 per cent, while Kirkland & Ellis' results were also a lukewarm 55 per cent. Taylor Wessing revealed its lowest score in a decade at 62 per cent, just below Mishcon de Reya.
The low retention score comes a month after the firm announced its strongest-ever set of financial results.
Average profit per equity partner (PEP) grew 30 per cent from £1.5m to £2m, while total revenue was up by 25 per cent from £62.4m to £78.1m.
Sources claim the firm has "been on a drive for profits in place of organic growth and development", while revenue is also understood to have picked up on the back of several big ticket pieces of litigation in 2016/17 including the MasterCard fees case.
They add the high profits can also be reached on account of Stewarts' small equity partnership, in which just 35 per cent of members are in the equity.
Stewarts is one of a number of firms that are known to recruit exclusively from their paralegal pool.
The firm counted a total of 247 fee-earners in the 2016/17 financial year, including paralegals and trainees.
A total of 145 of these were partners and associates, leaving Stewarts with nearly 100 paralegals, trainees and legal executives at its disposal.
Last year, the firm revamped its pay and incentives for paralegals, associates and business services staff in a bid to increase retention and attract the best junior talent.


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Kirkwood Community College Credit Catalog 2018-2019
PLU-130 Plumbing Theory I (6.00)
Provides instruction on the basic principles of plumbing system installations. At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to complete a variety of plumbing-related tasks such as identify and describe safe work practices; identify and explain the materials, fittings and supports used in a plumbing installation; identify the Uniform Plumbing Code; identify the content covered in each chapter of the UPC and perform basic pipe sizing; create plan and elevation plumbing drawings and sketches; and identify and describe potable water systems, water wells and basic water treatment. Credits: 6, Hours: (4/4/0/0), Arts & Sciences Elective Code: B


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You may have heard the term "Cross-Site Scripting", also shortened to "XSS", but it likely got caught by your "geeky stuff" filter. It's a very common method of screwing with your computer, often to get hold of your data and/or passwords. So, here is a brief and hopefully simple look at what it is.
XSS attacks occur via a web browser, and leverage web applications. A lot of web sites may take your information and apply it into a dynamic web page, such as a forum, comment section, or pretty much any other web site where you can enter data (Twitter, Facebook, et al).
The XSS exploit can "fool" your browser into also sending data to a location other than the intended webpage, and so can steal passwords, spread web viruses, gain control of your browser, and so on. The problems often start with a doctored link in an email, or in a message from a social media site.
A couple of things you do can include (of course) keeping your operating system and browser patched, and selectively allowing scripts to run from your browser. Most people will not do the latter, as it will "break" some sites. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and other Chromium-based derivatives (such as Comodo Dragon) can use add-ons that can let you selectively block scripts.
Mostly though, the onus is on web developers to write their applications to avoid allowing XSS exploits in the first place; and as with most complex software, it's a bit of a cat-and-mouse game.


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I went to the lawblog Conference on Friday. Organised by GeekLawyer and Ruthie, it was an opportunity to get some UK legal bloggers and those with some interest in blogging in a room together.
I was great to put some faces to names at long last – Justin Patten (Human Law) , Professor Jeremy Phillips (IPKAT), Alex (Impact), Nick Homes (Binary Law), Charon PC, John Bolch (Family Lore), and of couse Geeklawyer himself (and Ruthie)
Also good to see a familar face there too in the guise of Lee Bryant of Headshift – as well as giving a good talk to all present, he was also on hand to talk football over lunch!
Sadly didn't get a chance to talk to everyone present, although did get a brief opportunity in the pub to chat with the Law Society Gazette's Rupert White – nice bloke, the Gazette could do with more like him.


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This is for all the creative types out there, to serve as a reminder. Whether you are a writer, painter, sculptor, musician, actor, editor, fashion designer, creative director, graphic designer, filmmaker, any kind of stylist, in marketing – make it your job to create what is NEXT.
Strive to be innovative, dare to be bold, endeavour to stand out, grow your desire to buck the trends. That doesn't mean you can't recycle ideas – because nothing is original – but take those ideas, stuff them in a blender, add a dash of 'you-ness' and keep doing that over and over until you get something p h e n o m e n a l .
A single idea may not change the world, but a single idea could lead to the single change that ignites a revolution.
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This wee travel guitar has the same dimensions as a baritone ukulele, except for the longer scale. I needed to make it this size so that it could fit into a standard case for overseas travel.
This travel guitar has a lovely open tone with good volume for such a wee instrument.
Rewarewa and Swamp Kauri pieced bindings.
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O'Neill extends Northern Ireland deal to 2024
Michael O'Neill has been rewarded for leading Northern Ireland to a first major tournament in 30 years with a bumper contract extension till 2024, the Irish FA (IFA) announced on Friday.
O'Neill, 48, had been chased by the Scottish FA as they seek to find a successor to Gordon Strachan. After turning down the SFA following talks last month, O'Neil agreed a new deal worth a reported a record £700,000 (790,000 euros, $974,000) a year salary for a Northern Ireland manager to remain in charge.
"I am extremely proud to manage my country and I am pleased to be extending my time in charge of the senior team," O'Neill said in a statement released by the IFA.
"In recent months I have been approached about taking other opportunities in football. However, no other challenge attracted me as much as taking Northern Ireland back to a major tournament."
O'Neill masterminded Northern Ireland's qualification for Euro 2016 and even progressed to the last 16 in France before losing out narrowly 1-0 to Wales.
However, they fell just short of qualifying for this year's World Cup when they lost 1-0 to Switzerland in a two-legged playoff in November.
As part of his new contract, O'Neill will also take up the role of Chief Football Officer and will have overall responsibility for the development of the game in Northern Ireland.
"We wanted him to continue as not only has he brought success to our senior men's international team, but his positive influence extends to all levels of football in Northern Ireland," said IFA president David Martin.
O'Neill's men don't have another competitive match until September when they kick-off their qualifying quest for Euro 2020 with the debut of UEFA's Nations League against Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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ePub Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2018 ePub
Book overview
Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2018 is the most efficient, intuitive, and thorough resource of its kind, trusted by physicians to provide current diagnosis and treatment recommendations for hundreds of common medical conditions. The renowned "5 books in 1" format organizes vast amounts of data in a user-friendly, accessible manner, allowing quick retrieval of essential information. You'll find guidance on diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, and laboratory tests- updated annually by experts in key clinical fields. Medical algorithms and clinical practice guidelines round out the core content.


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Editor's Note: We frequently hear some strange things about the Zoning Update. Some appear to be based on actual proposals we've made, but have been somewhat garbled or misheard—much like the old children's game of "telephone". The Office of Planning has started this "Myth vs. Fact" series as a way to clear up some of the confusion.
Myth: The Zoning Update would allow businesses like dry cleaners and funeral homes in residential zones.
Fact: No one is going to be able to establish a dry cleaner or funeral home in a residential zone. We have proposed a very limited set of permissions that would allow small-scale, neighborhood-serving commercial uses in rowhouse zones. These permissions have been narrowly tailored to allow businesses like a deli (but not a restaurant), a corner store (but not a large-scale grocery) or a shoe repair shop or florist. The proposal also would allow something like a valet service, where clothes could be dropped off and picked up, but any dry cleaning would have to be done off site.
We understand where some of the confusion has come from. We're changing from a system where more than 600 individual uses are named and permitted in the old zoning code, to one where a set of some thirty broader categories of land uses describe everything that can be permitted. So when an early draft of the new code said that "Service" uses were permitted, some people might have gotten the wrong idea. Don't worry! We're clarifying this issue in the upcoming draft of the new code.
Interestingly, we've heard from some people that our proposal is actually too restrictive, and that they wouldn't mind having a dry cleaner (for example) next door, if it meant more convenient services in the neighborhood, or that an old, vacant commercial building could be put back into use. But we want to go slowly with this proposal, and test it out with the types of businesses that are least likely to have negative impacts, and the most benefits for neighbors.
To learn more about our proposals for corner stores and similar uses, click here.
What kinds of businesses do you think should be allowed in rowhouse neighborhoods? Or, should we allow any at all?


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3 days of Skiing/Boarding$786 until Feb. 18th or $811 thereafterIncludes 3 day Adult lift ticket, 4th day is availableDetails: $100 deposit due to reserve spot.Trip Includes: Round trip sleeper bus (soft drinks & water provided), 4 nights lodging at the River Run Condos, wine & cheese party plus dinner on return trip home.Condos are just a short walk to gondola, no need for shuttle bus.Trip Captain: Bette Wood405-229-4236 • email@example.com
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It's a large and clumsy picture to try and balance by yourself, so although I knew exactly where it would be hung, I wanted help doing so. I asked my friend, LV to help. He agreed, but was out and about and would not be able to make it over until late. I had work in the morning, so I postponed the visit. The next day, after getting home from work, I hung my coat up and did not even bother putting my bags away before deciding to hang the picture myself. I mean, I have done it before. It would have been nice for someone to hold the picture up so I could see the perfect height. But I used my 'third eye' and worked it out. Yes the hooks are crooked, but with a little balancing, I straightened the picture where you cannot even tell. Now it looks perfect hung over my settee.
As I sat back and admired my work, I could not help thinking 'I'm a bad mamma-jamma!'. I was giddy and excited, in my head singing Aretha Franklin's song, 'Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves!'. When Antoine called, I could not even hide my feelings. I explained how much I hate waiting. You may call it impatience, but I absolutely hate to wait. Especially waiting on a man. You know those things that you should have a man help you with, or so you think. I can name countless projects I, my mom and I or my aunt and I have tackled on our own. Whether a man was around or not. I think back to when my hand-me-down dining room table was unassembled on my floor for days. My ex was going to come over and help within 30 minutes, which turned into a couple of hours. Finally my mother, in her 'bump him' attitude said, we can do this ourselves. And you know what? We did. That mutha did not even show up that day, if I am recalling correctly.
Life with him taught me to work it out, wait for no one. Every time I walk in the living room and see that picture I am so happy. Not only because the three painted sistas look regal, but the beautiful painting represents how far I have come. My days of waiting on men are officially dead and gone. When LV came by the next day, he said it looked really nice. Of the men in my life now, I know he of all people would have helped and I would not have had to wait so long. But it just felt good not to have to depend on him. Our visit was a visit and not an assignment. Yeah...I got this.